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I. DREICH'LINGER.

.BUTTON. No. 389,693. Patented Sept. 18, 1888.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC DREICHLINGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,693, dated September 18. 1888.

' Application filed February 25, 1888. Serial No. 265,256. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Isaac DREICHLINGER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in buttons in whicha head is fixed on a shank provided with an eye or loop for fastening the button to a garment or the like. These eyes or loops, as ordinarily made, project on a line with the shank, so that the button, when stitched to a garment or backing, is constantly swaying laterally or hangs down so as to expose t-he fastening thereof.

The object of my invention is to obviate this difficulty by simple and efficient means; and the invention consists of a novel construction and combination of parts, hereinafter fully described and distinctly claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an enlarged sectional view of a button provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the fastening-shank detached from the button-head. Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the said button stitched to a piece of fabric. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing apeculiarlyconstructed card for holding the button.

In carrying my invention into effect with a glass button I form a fastening-shank, A, of a single piece of wire doubled, its closed end bent back to form a hook, B, and its free ends bent oppositely outward to form flat eyes 0 D in such a manner that the shank will be perpendicular to the common plane of said eyes. The hooked end of the shank is then thrust into. the glass head E while hot and soft, and will be firmly retained therein. The oppositely-projecting eyes 0 1) form a flat frame, which, when stitched to a fabric, as shown in Fig. 3, keep the button in a perpendicular position to the garment.

To apply the button to a card, G, an oblong rectangular tongue, H, is cut-from the card and the T-shaped fastening-shank introduced through the slot thus made, the tongue closing in behind the frame, forming the head of the T, so as to hold the button securely in place.

Although I make no claim in this application to the within-described means of carding the improved button, I reserve the right to at a proper time hereafter make a separate application for Letters Patent on saidmeans.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a button consisting in the solid head E and the shank A, formed of a single piece of wire doubled, and having its closed end embedded in the head and its free ends provided with the eyes 0 D, projecting oppositely and outwardly at right angles to the shank, as set forth.

ISA AC DREIOHLINGER.

Witnesses:

CLARENCE L. BURGER, O. SEDGwIcK. 

